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will this work

Please forgive me for thinking that this might work, but I will pose the question anyway.
Can I hookup a regular impulse sprinkler to my hose bib and then daisey chin it to another sprinkler 20-30 ft away?
Will I loose pressure?
Do I use PVC from sprinkler to sprinkler or can I use poly pipe?
How big of a pipe do I need?
I am trying to cover a 75'x75' area.
I measured my PSI from the bib and the reading said 80PSI.
I don't know what else I would need or what other info is needed.

I wanted to do it inground, about 3in (live in S TX,never gets cold) and put a conection near the HB for a quick connect. Something simple. I would put a Max of three sprinklers on the same line. I tried a dry run with regular hoses, and it did not work. The first sprinkler worked fine but the other two that were connected did nothing.

Example:
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What did I do wrong? Will it work if it is PVC? Or just scrap the whole idea?

Say there are 6 heads on a zone all with 2 GPM (Galons per Minute) nozzles. This will be a 12 GPM zone. To size the pipe at the first head in this zone, the pipe will have to be able to deliver 12 GPM of water with as little pressure loss as possible. When you go to the next head the pipe will have to deliver 10 GPM. . By the time you get to the last head on the zone the pipe will have to deliver only 2 GPM because that is all the last head is delivering. So this is why pipe can be smaller at the end of the zone. And by decreasing the pipe diameter you also decrease pressure. Smaller pipe, more pressure loss. Not the other way around.